Comments on: Take Whatever You Want, Just Don’t Take My Time!! http://theepiphany.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/take-whatever-you-want-just-dont-take-my-time/ I Have a Lot of Epiphanies Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:07:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: thekurths.com http://theepiphany.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/take-whatever-you-want-just-dont-take-my-time/#comment-3146 thekurths.com Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:28:19 +0000 http://theepiphany.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/take-whatever-you-want-just-dont-take-my-time/#comment-3146 [...] Karianne has read a couple of books by Elisabeth Elliot, including one called Keep a Quiet Heart, in which she talks about interruptions from a very different perspective.  I don’t have the book handy to quote from, but I found this synopsis: [...] [...] Karianne has read a couple of books by Elisabeth Elliot, including one called Keep a Quiet Heart, in which she talks about interruptions from a very different perspective.  I don’t have the book handy to quote from, but I found this synopsis: [...]

]]> By: Lundie http://theepiphany.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/take-whatever-you-want-just-dont-take-my-time/#comment-1691 Lundie Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:54:53 +0000 http://theepiphany.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/take-whatever-you-want-just-dont-take-my-time/#comment-1691 "she has come to realize that those interruptions were often God’s immediate answer to a prayer, what she had just been reading in the Word, or a point she was trying to make in the book. When she stepped back and looked at the situation, she could find that it was not an interruption at all, but a divine appointment that was meant to back up what she had been working on or meditating on at that very hour or day." Wow. I, too am a "time nazi", and it has been destroying my happiness as of late. As a WAHM with an almost 2-year-old, I live a life of interruption and it has been very hard on me. Thank you for a new perspective. I think I may need to find that Elisabeth Elliot book. Long ago I used to get an email subscription with her quotes. I wonder where that went... Blessings. “she has come to realize that those interruptions were often God’s immediate answer to a prayer, what she had just been reading in the Word, or a point she was trying to make in the book. When she stepped back and looked at the situation, she could find that it was not an interruption at all, but a divine appointment that was meant to back up what she had been working on or meditating on at that very hour or day.”

Wow. I, too am a “time nazi”, and it has been destroying my happiness as of late. As a WAHM with an almost 2-year-old, I live a life of interruption and it has been very hard on me. Thank you for a new perspective. I think I may need to find that Elisabeth Elliot book. Long ago I used to get an email subscription with her quotes. I wonder where that went…

Blessings.

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